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FANNING MILL.

No. 358.281 Patented Feb. 22, 1887.

Inventors ia/nwwmz UNITED Marne ATENT tries.

ISAAC H. LAMOREUX, OF HOLLAND, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOIt OF ONE-HALF TO I REINDER E. WERKMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

FANNlNG-VIILL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 358,281, dated February 22, 1887.

Application filed July 13, 1886. Serial No. 207,860. (No model.)

I all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ISAAC H.'LAMOREUX,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Holland, county of Ottawa, State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful FanningMill, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object certain improvements in fanning-mills, substantially as herein described and claimed.

fication, Figure l is a side elevation of the mill with portions of the side wall broken away; Fig. 2, the mill-shoe invertical section; Fig. 3, a top view of Fig. 2; Fig. 4, an enlarged perspective of right-hand end of Fig. 2; Fig. 5, an enlarged perspective of bridge It, shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 6, a horizontal section near casting ct in Fig. 4, looking from a point above; Fig. 7, a side elevation of part B in Fig. 1, en larged, with side wall of the mill in vertical section; Fig. 8, a plan of the hopper-gate and operating-lever enlarged, the view being from a point below the like parts in Fig. 1; and Fig. 9 are enlarged perspectives of a detail shown in Figs. 2 and 3. v

Referring to the letters of reference on the drawings, P tare the bottom inclines of the mill-hopper, and e the sliding gate,adapted to open and close the outletin the rearincline, t, as in ordinary mills.

In Fig. 8 is shown a novel lever for operating the gate 0. The handle f extends from a slotted enlargement which is eccentrically pivoted to the inclined bottom of the hopper at n. i is a curved slot in the lever. A stud in the upper end of the bar u, at right angles to said bar, plays in the slot 1;. The diverging arms of the Abaraare attached to the gate,one each side of the vertical center of the gate, thus carrying the gate straight by moving one end as fast as the other. Laterally from the slot 2' the curved edge of the lever is provided with notches, with which notches a sliding stop, 8, or a ratchet-pawl, if preferred, engages to lock the lever at any desired pointin its sweep and fix the desired distance the gate 6 shall be left open.

By referring to Fig. 1, and especially to Fig. 8, the use and operation of this gate-lever are clearly shown. Little power is required to operate it, and the gate moves with asteady and In the drawings forming a part of this speci-.

the slots 0.

accurate movement a great or little distance, as desired.

At R is shown a bridge,tapcred to the top,so as to throw the seed or chess each way into the proper drawers, 0 c, and thus prevent it from lodging on the contiguous edges of the two drawers. The lower part of this bridge R has a groove, S, on each side to receive the inner flange of each drawer. Thus thebridge serves as a support to the drawers 0 and covers or bridges over their edges, as above stated. An other advantage ofthebridgeR is, that it braces the side walls of the mill at each end of the bridge, and the bridge in turn is braced and supported by the walls B. Again having two right-angled sides to fit against the inner sides and lower edges of the walls is made in each end of the bridge It, as shown in Fig. 5. A screw is passed up through the end of thebridge into the edge of each wall B,and another screw is passed through the wall B into the vertical side of the gain in the end of the bridge. Thus the parts brace each other and add strength to the mill-frame. (See Fig. 7.)

In Fig. 4 is shown a casting,a,provided with the ordinary slots, 0, which support the ends of the screens. Each screen is usually provided with a projection or stud at each side to enter WVhile castings attached to the side walls of shoes and provided with slots are not new, still by the peculiar construction. of the castings a they finish and protect the shoe and prevent itfrom warping and splitting. To this end each casting laps onto bothfaces of the 8 5 side of the shoe, besides covering and shielding the vertical end. (See Fig. 6.)

In Fig. 2 a screen, as, is shown lying in the shoe beneath the hopper,in the ordinary mannor of using screens in this position. Itis desirable to give this screen a different pitch or angle for different uses, all of which is well understood by those skilled in the use of fanning- IlllllS. I effect this adjustment of the screen w by cutting vertical grooves 2 in the sides of the shoe, Figs. 2 and 3, and by constructing a support, 1", rectangularthicker one way than the other-and providing it with projections 22 at the ends, adapted to pass vertically into the grooves 2 andbe detachable therein. By plac- 1C0 ing this support beneath the end of the screen, with the thickest way vertical, the screen has a less degree of pitch than when the support lies flat. In Fig. 9 the support 0* is shown in both positions. In Fig. 2 the thickest way of the support is vertical.

I have aimed by my improvements to simplify and make more perfect the means described, and to facilitate their operation when performing their functions in cleaning grain.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- 1. The combination of the hopper, the feedgate, the eccentricallypivoted lever provided with the curved slot and with the curved ratchet side, a look-bar, and the bar provided with diverging arms and pivotally connected with said slot and attached to the sliding gate, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the side walls of the mill, the contiguous grain-drawers having the side flanges, the bridge grooved in the sides to receive said flanges and provided at the ends with gains having tworight-angled sides fitting against the inner faces and lower edges of the Walls, and screws securing said ends of the bridge to the faces and edges of the walls, substantially as set forth.

9. The combination of the shoe having the vertical grooves in the inner faces of its side walls, the upperscreen,and the detachable support between the screen and shoe,said support being rectangular-thicker one way than the other-and provided with the end projections for detachably entering said grooves,whereby the support may be taken out and turned flatwise and edgewise, substantially as set forth.

In testimony ofthe foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name in presence of two witnesses.

ISAAC H. LAMOREUX.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN 0. Post, HENRY D. Peer. 

